The annual BET Hip Hop Awards took place in Atlanta last night with Nicki Minaj, Diddy, Nelly, Kelly Rowland, Keri Hilson, Rick Ross & Swizz Beats in attendance.
Nicki took home 3 gongs, including Best Rookie and Diddy & Rick Ross performed a medley of hits including “MC Hammer”.
The awards will be screened in the States on 12th October.
USA TODAY spent the day with rapper Ludacris, in his mobile ‘crib’, as he toured and performed from around the States.
In other Luda news, he is now officially THE most successful rapper in Billboard history after gaining his 5th Number 1 last week with Taio Cruz’ s “Break Your Heart”. He shares the honour with Diddy who has also hit the Number 1 spot five times.
Seems like CaDiddy is still going strong as both lovebirds took to Twitter with the following not so cryptic message. Even though Diddy spent the weekend in the Dominican Republic with Kim Porter to celebrate Jay-Z’s 40th birthday, he still found time to tweet about missing Cassie who wasn’t on the trip and she returned the favour. This isn’t the first time they’ve been caught in the Twitter act, remember this? That’s all good but when’s you’re album coming out Cassie?
And it seems that The Dream got extra bitchy about his album not being nominated for any Grammy’s despite work he wrote for Beyonce and Jamie Foxx scooping multiple nominations. According to Christina Milian’s husband who had a long rant on Twitter, it was because his “ass kissing skills aren’t up”
As we reported earlier, Diddy appeared on the Home Shopping Network last week to sell his Sean John plush robes, along with his ‘I Am King’ and ‘Unforgivable’ fragrances.
The appearance was so successful that the network sold out of his goods and was forced to cancel the second show they had planned but not only that the channel have announced that Puff’s entire scent collection sold out in the 15 minutes following his appearance, setting a new sales record. Diddy apparently earned 400 thousand in total from his appearances on the HSN…